Core Faculty
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Bridges, William H., IV
- Associate Professor of Japanese
Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities
- wbridges@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-2235
- 407 Lattimore Hall
Interests: Modern Japanese language, literature, and culture; Race and ethnicity in modern Japanese literature and culture; Contemporary Japanese popular culture, especially anime; 20th-century African American literature; Literary theory, especially African American literary theory and the theory of the novel; Translation (theory and practice); Rhetoric and composition; Digital Humanities
D

Doughty, Kristin
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- kristin.doughty@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5155
- 437 Lattimore Hall
Interests: political and legal anthropology; politics of reconciliation; transitional justice; violence and conflict; memory; politics of energy; Africa; Rwanda

Dubler, Joshua
- Associate Professor of Religion
- Director, Rochester Education Justice Initiative
- joshua.dubler@rochester.edu | (585) 275-4756
- 428A Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Religion in America
H

Hunter, Cory
- Assistant Professor of Music, Department of Music, College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music
- cory.hunter@rochester.edu
- 1-341 Dewey Hall
I

Inikori, Joseph E.
- Professor of History
- inik@mail.rochester.edu | (585) 275-9020
- 437 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Atlantic World Economic History
K

Kemedjio, Cilas
- Professor of French
- cilaskemedjio@rochester.edu | (585) 275--425
- 406 Lattimore
Interests: Francophone Caribbean and African literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; transnational black studies; humanitarianism

Kyker, Jennifer
- Associate Professor of Music, Department of Music, College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Eastman School of Music
- jennifer.kyker@rochester.edu | (585) 275-0239
- 1-308 Dewey Hall
M

Mandala, Elias C.
- Professor of History
- elias.mandala@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2058
- 439 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Southern Africa since the 19th Century; Social History

Mariner, Kathryn
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- kathryn.mariner@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8734
- 444 Lattimore Hall
Interests: intimacy and social inequality; politics of race, class and gender; temporality; kinship and adoption; care; social work; space and place; visual anthropology; United States

Marshall, Cona
- Assistant Professor of American Religions
- cona.marshall@rochester.edu | Office (585) 275-9368
- 420 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: Womanism, Black feminism, the Black church (as an institution), and African American public religious rhetoric

McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.
- Associate Professor of African-American Literature and Culture
- Director, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies
- jmccune@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 273-5346
- 311B Morey Hall

Michael, John
- John Hall Deane Professor of English and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Director of American Studies
- john.michael@rochester.edu | (585) 275-9259
- 405 Morey Hall
Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies
O

Omelsky, Matthew
- Assistant Professor of English
- matthew.omelsky@rochester.edu
- 417 Morey Hall
Interests: Global black cultural studies; African and Caribbean literatures; film and digital media; time and phenomenology; speculative fiction; critical theory.
S

Saab, A. Joan
- Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies
- Vice Provost of Academic Affairs
- joan.saab@rochester.edu | (585) 275-7922
- 519 Morey Hall
Interests: Twentieth-century American cultural history; media and culture; urban and community studies; popular culture; cultural studies; aesthetic categories and values

Sierra Silva, Pablo M.
- Associate Professor of History
- pablo.sierra@rochester.edu | (585) 275-8354
- 458 Rush Rhees Library
Interests: African Diaspora, Latin American and Atlantic History
T

Tucker, Jeffrey Allen
- Associate Professor of English
- Director, Undergraduate Studies
- jeffrey.tucker@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2064
- 418 Morey Hall
Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction
W

Willis, Sharon
- Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts
Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies
- sharon.willis@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5757
- 517 Morey Hall
Interests: Film history and theory; visual and cultural studies; women's studies and feminist theory; comparative literature and critical theory; French cinema; 19th and 20th century French literature